Tuesday, June 2, 2015

What to Tell A Patient About Acne When Commonly Prescribed Treatments Don't Work!

One of the kickers about
going to a doctor and getting treatment for acne is that invariably, no
matter what you are told to do or what you are prescribed, your patient will be told
that the outbreak of acne must run its course.It makes you wonder why anybody consults with
a doctor to treat acne in the first place.

Antibiotics Create a Vicious Cycle

More often then not doctors prescribe
antibiotic medicines to deal with the infections associated with acne.

Tetracycline is the most widely prescribed antibiotic for acne.
The usual dose prescribed is 500 mg twice a day and this is continued until the
acne lesions seem to disappear.Tetracycline
must be taken on an empty stomach to be effective

Erythromycin is an antibiotic with anti-inflammatory properties
that help reduce the swelling of lesion. It causes stomach upset and
nausea.Typically 250-500 mg are
prescribed twice a day.

Minocycline is a derivative of tetracycline that has many side
effects including dizziness, nausea, vomiting, skin discoloration and yellowing
of teeth. Doctors usually prescribed 50 to 100 mg twice a day.

Doxycycline is often prescribed for people who cannot tolerate
erythromycin or tetracycline. It causes significant nausea and sensitivity to
the sun.The usual dosage given to acne sufferers
is 50 to 100 mg a day.

Clindamycin is an oral antibiotic that I not prescribed that
often because it can cause a serious intestinal infection called pseudomembranous
colitis.It is usually prescribed in 75
to 150 mg doses.

When reading the above you
might be thinking, “All is well. The antibiotics destroy the bacteria and the
pustule is healed.”The problem is that
antibiotics create an acidic condition in the body that leads to problems like
candida yeast overgrowth, which in turn inflames the body and encourages
breakouts.Many antibiotics also have
the side-effect of skin sensitivity, which can also trigger a break-out.

Unfortunately Western doctors
are increasingly happy to prescribe antibiotics and their over-use has caused
bacteria to mutate and become invulnerable to them. In addition to the fact
that there are potentially dangerous side effects suffered by thousands of
people every year because of our increasing reliance on antibiotics, it is
important to understand that antibiotics are fairly indiscriminate killers of
bacteria. They are not ‘smart’ enough to differentiate between harmful and
beneficial bacteria and they will therefore kill the probiotic bacteria that
populate our digestive system as well as the bacteria that cause infections.

There is Such a Thing As Good Bacteria

Despite the fact that as
humans, we are conditioned to think of bacteria as being harmful in every
situation, nothing could be further from the truth and reality. In fact, your
digestive system only works as well as it does because of a very delicate
balance between beneficial probiotic bacteria and potentially harmful strains
such as staphylococcus. Unfortunately, antibiotics will kill both varieties of
bacteria and that upsets that balance because it allows more of the bad
bacteria to take the place of the recently deceased ‘good’ germs.

It is believed that 80% of
the effectiveness of your immune system is dictated by the presence of healthy
probiotics in your gut. However you already know that a weakness in your immune
system then makes it more likely that you will have an outbreak of acne if this
overload if you continue to take antibiotics for your acne problem.

This is how a vicious cycle of
chronic outbreaks can be provoked.You
get a cyst, you go to the doctor and you are prescribed an antibiotic. You take
the antibiotic and the cyst appears to go away (or it may have gone away on its
own anyway without antibiotic treatment) and then your lower intestinal health
is compromised.This, in turn, causes
inflammation and provokes an immune response which ultimate also results in a
new crop of pustules on your face.

Thankfully you can offer cosmetic mesotherapy and other treatments to help your patient improve thier complexion.

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